84 patents
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Analysis of Microbial Fragments In Plasma
11 Jan 24
Various embodiments are directed to detecting infection-causing microbial cell-free DNA from a biological sample based on their size profiles and/or end signatures, in which the detection of infection-causing microbial DNA can be performed without no template control (NTC) samples.
Yuk-Ming Dennis Lo, Kwan Chee Chan, Rossa Wai Kwun Chiu, Wai Kei Lam, Peiyong Jiang, Guangya Wang
Filed: 8 Jul 22
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Methylation-based false positive duplicate marking reduction
3 Oct 23
An analytics system marks duplicate fragments from an initial set of fragments from a subject.
Alexander S. Yip, Samuel S. Gross, Seyedmehdi Shojaee
Filed: 3 Apr 20
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Diagnostic Applications Using Nucleic Acid Fragments
18 May 23
Various embodiments are directed to applications (e.g., classification of biological samples) of the analysis of the count, the fragmentation patterns, and size of cell-free nucleic acids, e.g., plasma DNA and serum DNA, including nucleic acids from pathogens, such as viruses.
Yuk-Ming Dennis Lo, Rossa Wai Kwun Chiu, Kwan Chee Chan, Peiyong Jiang, Wai Kei Lam
Filed: 18 Oct 22
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Methods and Systems for Tumor Detection
4 May 23
Methods are provided to improve the positive predictive value for cancer detection using cell-free nucleic acid samples.
Eugeni Namsaraev, Yuk-Ming Dennis Lo, Rossa Wai Kwun Chiu, Kwan Chee Chan, Peiyong Jiang, Kun Sun, Wai Kei Lam
Filed: 9 Aug 22
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Sequencing of Viral Dna for Predicting Disease Relapse
6 Apr 23
Various embodiments are directed to applications (e.g., classification of biological samples) of the analysis of the count and size of cell-free nucleic acids, e.g., plasma DNA and serum DNA, including nucleic acids from pathogens, such as viruses.
Yuk-Ming Dennis Lo, Kwan Chee Chan, Wai Kei Lam, Chiu Tung Chan
Filed: 30 Sep 22
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Cell-free Dna Methylation and Nuclease-mediated Fragmentation
15 Dec 22
Nuclease activity can affect the methylation level and fragmentation of cfDNA.
Yuk-Ming Dennis Lo, Rossa Wai Kwun Chiu, Kwan Chee Chan, Peiyong Jiang, Wing Yan Chan, Meng Ni, Diana Siao Cheng Han, Tsz Kwan Sin
Filed: 8 Apr 22
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Methods for Enriching for Duplex Reads In Sequencing and Error Correction
3 Nov 22
Methods for preparing sequencing libraries from a DNA-containing test sample, as well as methods for correcting sequencing-derived errors, are provided.
Lijuan Ji, Nathan Hunkapiller, Suchitra Ramani
Filed: 29 Jun 22
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Diagnostic applications using nucleic acid fragments
25 Oct 22
Various embodiments are directed to applications (e.g., classification of biological samples) of the analysis of the count, the fragmentation patterns, and size of cell-free nucleic acids, e.g., plasma DNA and serum DNA, including nucleic acids from pathogens, such as viruses.
Yuk-Ming Dennis Lo, Rossa Wai Kwun Chiu, Kwan Chee Chan, Peiyong Jiang, Wai Kei Lam
Filed: 24 Apr 20
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Methods of Identifying Somatic Mutational Signatures for Early Cancer Detection
20 Oct 22
Aspects of the invention include methods and systems for identifying somatic mutational signatures for detecting, diagnosing, monitoring and/or classifying cancer in a patient known to have, or suspected of having cancer.
Oliver Claude Venn, III
Filed: 21 Jun 22
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Alignment free filtering for identifying fusions
18 Oct 22
Cell free nucleic acids from a test sample obtained from an individual are analyzed to identify possible fusion events.
Xiao Yang, Hyunsung John Kim, Wenying Pan, Matthew H. Larson, Eric Michael Scott, Pranav Parmjit Singh, Mohini Jangi Desai
Filed: 12 Jun 18
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Methods and systems for tumor detection
4 Oct 22
Methods are provided to improve the positive predictive value for cancer detection using cell-free nucleic acid samples.
Eugeni Namsaraev, Yuk-Ming Dennis Lo, Rossa Wai Kwun Chiu, Kwan Chee Chan, Peiyong Jiang, Kun Sun, Wai Kei Lam
Filed: 25 Oct 17
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Methods for enriching for duplex reads in sequencing and error correction
16 Aug 22
Methods for preparing sequencing libraries from a DNA-containing test sample, as well as methods for correcting sequencing-derived errors, are provided.
Lijuan Ji, Nathan Hunkapiller, Suchitra Ramani
Filed: 14 Dec 18
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Methods Using Characteristics of Urinary and Other Dna
9 Jun 22
The ends of cell-free DNA fragments may be used for analysis of a biological sample.
Yuk-Ming Dennis Lo, Kwan Chee Chan, Peiyong Jiang, Suk Hang Cheng, Ze Zhou, Tingting Xie, Guangya Wang, Chen Ding
Filed: 7 Dec 21
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Sample Validation for Cancer Classification
24 Mar 22
Systems and methods for validating that a DNA sample is from a test subject are disclosed.
Onur Sakarya, Christopher-James A.V. Yakym
Filed: 26 Aug 21
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Detecting Cross-contamination In Sequencing Data
24 Mar 22
Detecting cross-contamination between test samples used for determining cancer in a subject is beneficial.
ONUR SAKARYA, CHRISTOPHER-JAMES A.V. YAKYM, PRANAV PARMJIT SINGH, ROBERT ABE PAINE CALEF, RICHARD HUANG
Filed: 17 Sep 21
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Enhanced ligation in sequencing library preparation
15 Mar 22
Methods for preparing a sequencing library from a DNA-containing test sample are provided.
Craig Betts, Byoungsok Jung
Filed: 30 Mar 18
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Using Nucleic Acid Size Range for Noninvasive Cancer Detection
3 Mar 22
Size-band analysis is used to determine whether a chromosomal region exhibits a copy number aberration or an epigenetic alteration.
Yuk-Ming Dennis Lo, Rossa Wai Kwun Chiu, Kwan Chee Chan, Peiyong Jiang
Filed: 8 Nov 21
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Nuclease-associated End Signature Analysis for Cell-free Nucleic Acids
13 Jan 22
Various embodiments are directed to using nuclease expression in tissues that influences cell-free DNA end signatures/motifs and size of overhang between DNA strands.
Yuk-Ming Dennis Lo, Rossa Wai Kwun Chiu, Kwan Chee Chan, Peiyong Jiang, Wing Yan Chan, Wai Kei Lam, Diana Siao Cheng Han, Wenlei Peng, Chen Ding
Filed: 13 Jul 21
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Detection and Classification of Human Papillomavirus Associated Cancers
23 Dec 21
Systems and methods described herein include detecting a presence or absence of HPV in a biological sample having cell-free nucleic acids from a subject and potentially cell-free nucleic acids from an HPV strain.
Robert Abe Paine Calef, M. Cyrus Maher, John F. Beausang, Joerg Bredno, Oliver Claude Venn, Alexander P. Fields, Arash Jamshidi
Filed: 17 Jun 21
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Methods for Analysis of Cell-free Rna
16 Dec 21
Methods for measuring subpopulations of cell-free ribonucleic acid (RNA) molecules are provided.
Ruth E. MAUNTZ, Matthew LARSON, Archana SHENOY, Arash JAMSHIDI, David BURKHARDT
Filed: 16 Jun 21